Girl with the blue velvet band

Collected by Marvin Wallace For Mary C. Parler Transcribed by Frances Majors
Sung by Buck Buttery Lincoln, Arkansas August 19, 1958
Reel 281, Item 7
The Girl with the Blue Velvet Band
One evening I went for a ramble;
The hour was just about nine.
I met a little gal in old Frisco On the corner of Honey and Pine.
Her face was the beauty of nature; Her eyes they seemed to expand.
Her hair was so rich and so brilliant, Entwined with a blue velvet band.
We strolled the streets together;
In my pocket she placed her hand.
She planted the evidence on me,
That girl in the blue velvet band.
Just then I heard the scream of the sirene,
And the girl in the blue velvet band Left me to face all the trouble
With a diamond that was worth ten grand.
I was sent to Atlanta for stealing;
God knows that I'm an innocent man.
The guilty one now she lies dying,
That girl in the blue velvet band.
Last night as the bed chimes were ringing,
I was standing so close to the bars I fancy I heard her voice calling Out on the ocean of stars.
I'll be out in a week, and I'm leaving;
But I'll carry the name of a man Who's spent ten years in prison For the girl in the blue velvet band.
When I get out I'll endeavor To live in some other land;
I'll bid farewell to old Frisco
And the grave of the blue velvet band.

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Collected by Marvin Wallace For Mary C. Parler Transcribed by Frances Majors
Sung by Buck Buttery Lincoln, Arkansas August 19, 1958
Reel 281, Item 7
The Girl with the Blue Velvet Band
One evening I went for a ramble;
The hour was just about nine.
I met a little gal in old Frisco On the corner of Honey and Pine.
Her face was the beauty of nature; Her eyes they seemed to expand.
Her hair was so rich and so brilliant, Entwined with a blue velvet band.
We strolled the streets together;
In my pocket she placed her hand.
She planted the evidence on me,
That girl in the blue velvet band.
Just then I heard the scream of the sirene,
And the girl in the blue velvet band Left me to face all the trouble
With a diamond that was worth ten grand.
I was sent to Atlanta for stealing;
God knows that I'm an innocent man.
The guilty one now she lies dying,
That girl in the blue velvet band.
Last night as the bed chimes were ringing,
I was standing so close to the bars I fancy I heard her voice calling Out on the ocean of stars.
I'll be out in a week, and I'm leaving;
But I'll carry the name of a man Who's spent ten years in prison For the girl in the blue velvet band.
When I get out I'll endeavor To live in some other land;
I'll bid farewell to old Frisco
And the grave of the blue velvet band.